Another Ivy League President is Gone: Why I Have Been Expecting Cornell's Martha Pollack to "Retire"

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May 13, 2024

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On Friday, I was surprised to read that Cornell University President Martha Pollack had resigned. I once regarded her as something rare among Ivy League presidents—a defender of free speech and open inquiry. But then I met Randy Wayne.

The Cornell biologist and co-chair of Heterodox Academy at Cornell explai…

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Randy Wayne

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences at Cornell University. I call myself a natural philosopher as I see no real divisions between the scientific disciplines. My research is on the nature of light.